The Positive Learning Collaborative is working with 16 schools to help create classrooms free of bullying, drama and conflict so all children can learn while respecting the humanity of teacher and child. We are already seeing exceptional results. 


Public education advocates on June 17 unfurled a 160-foot-long petition scroll with 30,000 names on the floor of the state Capitol calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to keep the current cap on charter schools in New York City. It was...

The UFT and American Federation of Teachers on June 11 announced a $500,000 initiative to expand career and technical education in five cities, including New York, based on a model pioneered here.

Mayen Davis couldn’t bring her sixth-grade science class with her to the Costa Rican rainforest so she brought the rainforest to the Jamaica campus of the Young Women’s Leadership Academy of Queens.

The leadership skills, acuity and tenacity of classroom educators were on display at the Spring Education Conference, where representatives of four teacher-led initiatives took to the stage for a morning panel on New York City Innovations in...

Six workshops, including several led by classroom educators, drew many hundreds of UFT members and parents at the Spring Education Conference.
Each hour-long workshop addressed aspects of urgent questions and issues in city schools right now.


After an in-depth study of the Holocaust, 10th-graders at the HS of Art and Design poured their hearts out to Elie Wiesel in letters. Their words so touched Wiesel that he wrote back to them just a few weeks later.

Biology fellows (from left) Cody Gordon, Jaginda Lewis and Neeya Byrd were among the nearly 1,000 members from the 2015 cohort of New York City Teaching Fellows who were welcomed to the city’s public school system at a June 12 event at Kings Theatre...

Educators at the Amber Charter School in East Harlem ratified a new contract by unanimous vote on June 15.

Following months of outreach to the state board by UFT members and others across the state, the Regents on June 16 adopted regulations for the new teacher evaluation system that place some limits on the impact of state tests, ensure greater local...